Improve irc notification to support multiple commits.

post-recieve hooks print all the commit lines to standard output
which is piped to git-post-commit.py. git-post-commit.py now reads
on standard input, one line at a time and prints in the channel.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/misc/git-post-commit.py b/misc/git-post-commit.py
index 775fe3b..07eeb60 100755
--- a/misc/git-post-commit.py
+++ b/misc/git-post-commit.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """
-Simple script to send a message to an IRC channel
+Simple script to send messages to an IRC channel
 in Fire and Forget mode (non persistent connection)
 
-Usage: git-post-commit <server[:port]> <nickname> <channel> <message>
+Usage: git-post-commit <server[:port]> <nickname> <channel>
+
+Read lines one by one on the standard input and print them in
+in the channel
 """
 
 import irclib
@@ -19,15 +22,16 @@ class IRCFire(irclib.SimpleIRCClient):
         connection.join(self.target)
 
     def on_join(self, connection, event):
-        self.connection.privmsg(self.target, sys.argv[4])
+        for line in sys.stdin: 
+            self.connection.privmsg(self.target, line)
 	self.connection.quit("Commit sent")
 
     def on_disconnect(self, connection, event):
         sys.exit(0)
 
 def main():
-    if len(sys.argv) != 5:
-        print "Usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " <server[:port]> <nickname> <channel> <message>"
+    if len(sys.argv) != 4:
+        print "Usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " <server[:port]> <nickname> <channel>"
         sys.exit(1)
 
     s = sys.argv[1].split(":", 1)
diff --git a/misc/post-receive b/misc/post-receive
index 09ccf95..b44916a 100755
--- a/misc/post-receive
+++ b/misc/post-receive
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@
 
 # irc notification
 # change the path of the python script
-read oldrev newrev refname
-a=`git log --format=format:"%an | %s" $oldrev..$newrev`
-python git-post-commit.py "irc.freenode.net" "AliasCommit" "#alias" "$a"
+{
+    while read oldrev newrev refname
+    do
+	a=`git log --format=format:"%an | %s" $oldrev..$newrev`
+	printf "$a\n"
+    done
+} | python git-post-commit.py "irc.freenode.net" "AliasCommit" "#alias"
+